Neuroscientists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered that older people use their brains differently than younger people when it comes to storing memories, particularly those associated…

Parents of children with intellectual disabilities have long been frustrated by intelligence quotient (IQ) testing that tells them little to nothing about the long-term learning potential of their…

New technology is often called 'the wave of the future' but it couldn't be any more literal in the case of wave energy.  Wave energy can be a large, widespread renewable resource that is…

The redox-active pigments responsible for the blue-green stain of the mucus that clogs the lungs of children and adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) are primarily signaling molecules that allow large…

Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen's University and the…

Raw milk advocates claim that unpasteurized milk cures or prevents disease, but no scientific evidence supports this notion. Testing raw milk, which has been suggested as an alternative to…

I just saw on Discover.com a blog post that almost made me wish I was teaching Chemistry again.....almost.  It's about some scientists who have been making a Periodic Table of Videos- a very…

LONDON, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- LONDON, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - First Study of its Kind Shows That Consumption of Activia(R) Helps Reduce Abdominal Distension Among People With IBS…

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Patton expands TDM, Ethernet, and Metro-Optical transport offerings by acquiring product and technology rights to the OnSite S10 product line.…

An editor at Nature discusses the internet and the ethics of science communication (PDF). The paper doesn't turn out to be much of a discussion of science communication on the web - the piece ends up…